Columbo - S/D

^This show had four titles in its 13-episode run, which I’d guess is a record

Thought this revive would be Wings of Desire-related.

It's always fun trying to spot when Columbo knows or at least suspects whodunnit. Maybe there isn't always an obvious moment but season 5 episode 5 Now You See Him (currently available on 5 USA) has a real humdinger of one.

Really great episode all round, Jack Cassidy as the stage magician villian doing legit sleight of hand himself, bar one scene with a hand double and a couple of disappointing edits; the final reveal has Columbo one-upping the showman and he does it with glee.

Yeah, that's a good one.

all the jack cassidy ones are classics. robert culp too iirc.

This one was on this morning, Oskar Werner was the murderer, Gena Rowlands was his wife, it was all about video technology. Yesterday we had a McGoohan starring/directing one where Leslie Nielsen was the victim and McGoohan kept shoehorning little Prisoner references into the script. It's TV bliss.

― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 February 2019 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I loved Gena Rowlands as the suffering wife and daughter - her acting in this is just superb.

The last scene on that McGoohan EP (one of three as the murderer) is also so re-watchable (even for me). Falk was great but its so often the case that he could create some great chemistry with so many co-stars who were there for the once. Seems like everyone was really enjoying themselves for that short period and that really shows up on the McGoohan EPs. Partly the acting chops but the EPs are so goofy script-wise (very little makes sense) and it just encourages that.

OTM on Gena Rowlands. I love how, in the very last scene, Columbo seems to realize that he's just contributed to ruining this woman's life and there's a freeze frame of him looking sad and remorseful. Love the freeze frame endings.

Saddened to report that I watched the final classic Columbo episode. It's not like there are no more lands to conquer; I still have 20+ specials from the revival era to tend to. Still, here's my top 10 Columbos I've seen thus far, listed by title and murderer. pic.twitter.com/kkRoq4XIlt

— Splat! Prigge (@mattprigge) October 7, 2019

Cute touch, giving the eight-year-old boy genius in Jose Ferrer's think tank the name 'Steven Spelberg' (sic).

This scene from a 1990 episode gave me Twin Peaks flashbacks, although it was released a few months before TP's pilot.

https://i.ibb.co/7Jp4wM3/Wolf-Hunter-body.jpg

Good episode too, despite the person playing the villain being a terrible actor.

I see that the villain also played Dick Tremayne! I guess he performs all his parts like that.

There’s a 1990-ish one with Mike from Twin Peaks at college, too

Xpost he’s also a vampire in an all-time terrible episode of quantum leap

Still think that this was the most surprising Columbo scene, for UK viewers at least

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY6r0QELBKY

Maybe it's early in the morning and my rational brain isn't awake yet, but lol.

Apparently, the second season episode "Dagger of the Mind" (probably saw, but can't remember) was sold as a theatrical release in Italy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGQZVRohrJg

A bit silly that one.

That’s probably my least favorite episode of the many I’ve seen. Columbo is irritatingly dumb in it and the travelogue material is boring.

Oh man the breakthrough clue in that one is such a dumb, leaky logical leap. Maybe the only one I've seen that's just a complete groaner.

The depiction of London and the Met Police is LOLz

Awesome, the Ward Fowler episode has just started.

I forgot Timothy Carey is in it!

... and Walter Koenig!

In the past year Columbo has become my comfort watch of choice. Folding clothes, or bored, or too drunk to focus on anything else. Most recently watched Publish or Perish, guesting Mickey Spillane. Love seeing Columbo in a fancy restaurant ordering Chili.

Dagger of the Mind has def been the worst so far.

“Do you have any chili? With ketchup? And crackers? I was hoping to get some of those saltines.”

The 100 greatest Columbo scenes of the 70s

My favourite is #11 - I really need to get my "watch all of columbo" project off the ground though.

Do it!
I’m on s3 e6
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I dove directly into Columbo after finishing Rockford Files and got a few seasons in before getting distracted but maybe I need to stop watching stupid movies and get back to this.

Does Columbo lose his cool with anyone but Nimoy over the course of the series?

He gets quite irate with the villain in "A Deadly State of Mind". Or rather his assistant:
https://columbophile.com/2018/11/18/episode-review-columbo-a-deadly-state-of-mind/

That's the one where Columbo's star witness at the end isn't blind.

On a massive tangent it strikes me that Aveleyman.com is one of those websites that seems to have been around forever, and always pops up a few pages down Google's search results, and it looks ancient, but I still have no idea what it is, what it's for, who runs it, why it's called Aveleyman etc. It seems to just have little pictures of actors.

It's like Hyperreal.org and Shillpages.com and... I can't think of another example because it's hard to remember things that aren't memorable. It just exists. Like the Glyph in Halo Jones. A little throwback to bygone era.

Chris Stark, not Clark

Stark and Mills have been on Radio 1 in the afternoon for more than 10 years. this autumn they’re moving to Radio 2. A lot of people like them. It’s extremely “LadBible” radio.

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The one I always used to dread was FIGHTING TALK with Colin Murray, which is basically LadBantz: The Radio Show. Ostensibly a discussion with a panel of guests which just consists of them exchanging "witty" remarks about topical (usually football-related) things and the other guests always laugh in a really lame, dry way like "uh her her her her", and also the guests score points for doing the best BANTS, or something (they never bother to explain this part of the show so I've never had any idea what they're actually being scored on). It's been on for years and has always been mystifyingly unfunny shit.

Oops, wrong thread

I just started Rockford Files after finishing the classic Columbo run. It's different enough but definitely darker. It makes me realize how restrained Columbo really was. No guns, no car chases, everybody is cool as a cucumber for the most part.

Is there any episode at all when Columbo takes a fist to the face? Rockford gets pummeled half to death in his own trailer every other week.

My favourite is #11 - I really need to get my "watch all of columbo" project off the ground though.

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We're up to the final 70s episode, The Conspirators, which looks like it's going to be very silly indeed. Then we're on to the 80s episodes which I've seen very few of, I think we're probably in for a very mixed bag.

very very very

Man the Johnny Cash as malicious Cessna pilot episode takes forever to get through

I quite enjoyed that one, Cash does an entertaining job

It's good!

I mean it's a fairly low-stakes episode, even by the standards of Columbo, but there's plenty of fun to be had with Cash's costumes and the bizarre 70s interiors, and Cash is relatively sympathetic by the standards of Columbo murderers

Yes, it's one of those ones where Columbo is most apologetic for catching the murderer. Good ending too.

I think that ep would be in the top 10 for me. Love the last scene in the car.

(xp) almost apologetic not most apologetic!

Is there any episode at all when Columbo takes a fist to the face?

Yes, there are at least two such incidents in the 1990s. Columbo and George Wendt get roughed up by Rod Steiger's henchmen at the end of the disappointingly flat Strange Bedfellows episode, although all is not as it seems.

Columbo gets a proper fist to the face when posing a small-time crook in the Undercover episode, which was an adaptation of an Ed McBain 87th Precinct novel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pdjZgnMLqc

Thank you, I appreciate your research

Going to rep a new-ish podcast that’s both rewatched the show but also had really good interviews with writers and scholars about the show.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/53-the-shabby-detective-91672189/

It’s done by Chris Stachiw (from The Kulturecast) and Mike White (from The Projection Booth and the Cashiets du Cinemart zine)

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rude tbh

In the episode I’m up to (s4?), the lieutenant is first seen looking in the back seat of the police commissioners car (which he had to borrow because his was in the shop) looking for his signature green cigar (why is it green)